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Baralt, Melissa; Gómez, José Morcillo – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
Technology-mediated task-based language teaching is the merger between technology and task-based language teaching (TBLT; González-Lloret & Ortega, 2014) and is arguably now an imperative for language education. As language classrooms are being redefined, training for how to set learners up to successfully do tasks online must be part of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Teacher Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Elliott, Cynthia Ann – 1984
In response to the growing Hispanic population in Dade County Florida and the resultant need for the English-speaking businessperson to be conversant in Spanish, Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) developed and produced a non-traditional, conversational approach to Spanish instruction. In Miami, where Hispanics account for almost 60% of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Business Skills, Community Change, Community Characteristics
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Lambert, Wallace E.; Taylor, Donald M. – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examines the modes of accommodation to America of working- and middle-class mothers of Cuban heritage living in Miami, Florida, in terms of language proficiencies. Findings indicate that working-class mothers encourage their children to learn English in order to succeed, a subtractive form of bilingualism, whereas middle-class mothers encourage…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Cubans, Cultural Maintenance